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LXXIV. SANTALACE-^. 



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, Woods, thickets, and hedges throughout England, especially jn 

 clay soil. Rare in Scotland, and scarcely indigenous ; about Rossi ^ 



and Bothwell. I^ • 1— -5 Stem rather stout, erect, 1 -— 3 /^l 



high, but little branched, naked below, leafy above, and hence beari 

 some resemblance to a Palm. Flowers drooping, each accoinpani d 

 bv an ovate concave hractea. ^ 



Berrij ovate, bluish-black, said to be 

 l)oisonous to all animals except birds. 



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Ovary inferior. (Okd. LXXIV.— LXXV.) 



Ord. LXXIV. SANTALACEiE Br. 



a 



■ Perianth adnate -with tlie ovary ; its limb 3 — 5 -cleft, with 

 valvular aestivation. Stamens 3 — 5,'opposite to the segments 

 of the perianth, epigynous. Ovary ] -celled, with 1— 4°oy?Je5 

 pendulous from near the summit of a free central placenta. 

 Style 1. Stigma often lobed. Fruit hard, dry, and somewhat 

 drupaceous, i -seeded. Albumen fleshy, with the embryo m Its 



-Trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants. Leaves alternate 

 or nearly so, without stipules. Flowers small.— The true Sandal- 

 wood of commerce is Santalum album; that of the Sandwich 

 Islands, Santalum Freycinetianum. As in the preceding nearly 

 allied Order of Thym^jlace^, the bark is remarkably t'ough. 



axis. 



d 



L TiiEsiuM Linn. Bastard- Toadflax. 



Perianth 4— 5-cleft, persistent. Stamens with a small fascicle 

 of hairs at their base. Stigma simple. Drupe crowned with the 

 persistent perianth.— ISTame : Qrjffna were the games Instituted 

 in honour of Theseus, and a plant, used to form the crown 

 tlien ^competed for, obtained the name Stnanov^ — hat from 

 Pliny's description it was very different from ours. 



1. T.UnophijllumL. (Lint-leaved B.) ; stems procumbent or 

 ascending, leaves linear-lanceolate 1 -nerved, racemes simple or 

 panicled leafy, peduncles and pedicels with 3 bracteas, pedicels 

 usually as long as the flower in fruit spreading, their anoles 

 and the edges of the bracteas and upper leaves denticulate- 

 scabrous fruit oval-oblong. E. B. t. 247. T. humifu- 

 sum DC. 



Elevated chdky pastures, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, and 

 Uorsetshire. Kanmar hills, near Dorkin 

 true parasite. Roots v 



oody, 



sendiuff 



Surrey. J^ 

 forth several 



g' 



A 



5—7.- 



]. , ^ • - . o -w.v..^. herbaceous, 



spreadmg leafy stems, terminated by the somewhat panicled leafy 



Segments of the perianth white. Fruit strongly ribbed, 

 slightly reticulated. * ^ 



racemes. 



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